Advanced Media Arabic - Tapa dura

Do you want to develop, enhance and refine your Arabic media language, translation and analytical skills? Then this is the book for you. It gives you a broad range of exercises on reading comprehension, speaking, writing and listening, based on a wide variety of media texts and audio materials. You can also equip yourself with journalistic skills such as giving presentations and writing media articles. Focusing on the style of Arabic media language, you are guided through a series of topics: Diplomacy Elections Violence and Anarchy War and Military Action Economy Law and Order Trade and Industry Reports on Language and Culture Natural Disasters Revolutions `War on Terrorism' Arabic Radio and TV Extracts Each module includes a section for discussion and debate as well as an explanation of Media Arabic issues. The book includes: Authentic texts and listening materials gathered from a wide range of Arabic media 60 minutes of audio material available as a free download Vocabulary list Key to exercises New to this edition: Brand new texts and listening materials New module on reports on Language and Culture New module on Revolutions New drills throughout Now includes radio as well as TV

El Mustapha Lahlali is Associate Profesor of Arabic at the University of Leeds. He regularly teaches courses on the Arab media, as well as media translation courses.